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MESSAGE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 


Executive  Office,  ) 

Richmond.  Feb.  7th,  1863. 


To  tin   Houst  of  Representatives  of  the  Confederate  States  : 

I  have  this  day  received  the  following  resolution  : 
■•  Resolved,  That   the   President  he  requested  to  inform  this   House 
whether  private  property  of  citizens  not  in  the  army  has  been  b 
and  confiscated  by  his  order,  or  not;  and  if  it  has  been,  for  what 

offence,  and  under  what  law,  such  seizure   and  confiscation  have  been 
ordered  ;"  and  reply  that  no  private  property  of  citizens  either  in, 
not  in  the  army  has  been  seized  and  confiscated  by  my  order. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


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